NCT01049477

The Effects of Music Therapy on Women's Anxiety Before and During Cesarean Delivery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if listening to your choice of music with a portable mp3 player before and after a cesarean section for delivery of a baby will decrease the patient's anxiety level.

Detailed description

Music has been suggested and evaluated as a therapeutic intervention to reduce preoperative anxiety for surgical patients. Music intervention in the immediate preoperative period may be effective in lowering anxiety levels during Cesarean delivery. If this investigation shows that music intervention before and after Cesarean delivery reduces anxiety levels, this intervention can be integrated into future operative care for women having scheduled or emergency Cesarean deliveries. Music therapy could be expanded to included patients undergoing other surgical procedures under regional anesthesia. The effect of reducing anxiety levels could aid in lactation initiation and improve infant bonding in new mothers, but it could also shorten postoperative recovery time for all surgical patients.

Conditions

• Pregnancy
• Cesarean Section

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Music group	The patients randomized to the music group of the study will listen to music 30 minutes in the holding room prior to their c/s. They will then listen to music after their c/s for 30 minutes. They will complete the STAI before and after their c/s.
OTHER	Non music group	Patients randomized to the non music group will complete the STAI before and after their c/s, but not listen to music.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2010-01-14
• Last updated: 2017-11-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States